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Re:Folk wisdom on visual programming by jcelerier on Friday July 02, 2021 @03:12AM (#27708660)
> Also, for some reason other fields seem to love these visual tools like TouchDesigner and Grasshopper.

It's very simple - if you work with artists and you make them a presentation of your software, and at any moment there is some amount of code displayed on the screen, some of them will get up and leave the presentation.

I worked on my software with someone who would literally refuse to use the keyboard - everything had to be done by mouse, and I know a fair amount of like-minded people in th e same field.

Re:Folk wisdom on visual programming by auxym on Friday July 02, 2021 @08:04AM (#27710374)
> It's very simple - if you work with artists and you make them a presentation of your software, and at any moment there is some amount of code displayed on the screen, some of them will get up and leave the presentation.

Surprisingly, this is also the case for mechanical engineers. The proportion might be smaller, but they still exist. I know people in freshman classes that are retook the intro to programming class which was stuff like variables, conditionals and loops in Matlab.

Then there's people who did OK in their Fortran classes in the 1990s but never touched a line of cosey since.

The people have a good chance of being intimidated by code. This is where LabVIEW and Simulink come in.